German submarine V-80
Prototype German V-80 midget submarine at sea | |
History | |
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Nazi Germany | |
Name: | V-80 |
Builder: | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Yard number: | 597 |
Launched: | 14 April 1940 |
Commissioned: | Never commissioned |
Fate: | Scuttled, May 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Type V midget submarine |
Displacement: | 76 t (75 long tons) |
Length: | 22.05 m (72 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion: | Walter turbine |
Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range: | 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) |
Complement: | 4 men |
Armament: | None |
The V-80 (German: Versuchs-U-Boot V 80) was a 76-ton experimental submarine and the only representative of the German Type V design produced for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
The prototype was completed in 1940 in Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. The 4 man vessel was designed to test the Walter hydrogen peroxide-based turbine propulsion system. Its range was 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) at 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).
The only earlier attempt to use a chemical reaction based air-independent propulsion system was in the Spanish submarine the Ictineo II.
This midget submarine led to the design of the German Type XVII submarine.
Gallery
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V-80 midget submarine during sea trials, World War II
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V-80 schematic
See also
External links
- Helgason, GuĂ°mundur. "V-80". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- Helgason, GuĂ°mundur. "The Walter U-boats". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
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